GOP candidate in Sen. John Morse recall also writes "erotic romance"

A Colorado Springs author vying to represent the GOP in a fall recall election of Democratic Senate President John Morse has drawn ire from some constituents for her hot-and-heavy prose.

For much of the past decade, Jaxine Bubis has written novels under the pseudonym "Jaxine Daniels," and in one of her pieces describes herself as a "grammy who writes erotic romance."

Bubis is one of two Republicans — the other is former City Councilman Bernie Herpin — who have announced their candidacies to replace Morse who faces recall because of his leadership on tougher Colorado gun laws.

According to Bubis' Amazon author profile, she "grew up in Colorado Springs and spent many years in the high mountains working as an EMT both on the ambulance service and in Search and Rescue." The profile includes videos of Daniels and notes she is a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.

In a statement to The Denver Post on Tuesday, Bubis acknowledged writing "Beantown Heat," an erotic novel published by eXtasy Books in 2004.

"Ten years ago, as a stay-at-home mother who was helping to contribute to support our family, I took creative writing classes," she said in the statement. "One project that resulted from those creative writing classes was a fiction romance novel.The novel had very limited publication (less than 50 copies) and I took it off the market as soon I contractually could, which was around eight years ago."

Beantown Heat, a book written by Jaxine Bubis under the pseudonym "Jaxine Daniels." (eXtasy Books)

In her candidacy, Bubis has the endorsements of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and some of the state's most conservative lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Harvey, of Highlands Ranch, and Colorado Springs Sens. Kent Lambert and Owen Hill. Dudley Brown, president of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, declined to comment for this article.

After The Post read an excerpt of Bubis' writings to Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, who endorsed the author, Holbert said he had "no reason" to pull his endorsement.

"I would leave it to her to be responsible for what she writes," Holbert said.

Bubis' campaign website offers little insight into what she does professionally, other than being a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment.

Bubis' writings came to light in an e-mail blast from Paul Paradis, a well known Colorado Springs gunshop owner. Paradis helped spearhead organizers to gather enough signatures to spark a recall of Morse, who represents Senate District 11 in El Paso County.

In addition to "Beantown Heat," Bubis has written a series of romantic novels with hockey and military themes. "Beantown Heat" and Bubis' writing name — Daniels — have been removed from the eXtasy Books website.

Paradis said someone else tipped him off about Bubis' books and he did his own research. He doesn't see the books as romance novels but as porn and alleges Bubis has scrubbed much of this content from the Internet.

"I was absolutely aghast," he said. "This is a person supported by the Christian right and conservative lawmakers. They just wanted to jump for the most conservative person in the room and that's stupid."

Paradis said there's no denying that Bubis worked hard on the recall, but he fears if she were the nominee, the recall would become the "butt of jokes nationally and fodder for late-night comedies."

"This is too important for that," he said.

Paradis said he is old friends with Herpin, but held off on making an endorsement until he found out about Bubis' books. He said about a dozen people have called to thank him for the blast e-mail.

Herpin said he hopes "these revelations won't be a distraction from the real goal of recalling John Morse."

Bubis and Herpin signed formal agreements with the El Paso County Republican Party committing to a GOP vacancy committee process for choosing the Republican nominee. Both agreed that the loser of this process will drop out of the race. The process will occur later this month.

In her statement to The Post, Bubis denounced "these sort of malicious attacks."

"It's precisely why I began walking neighborhoods to Recall Senator John Morse — to stop this sort of intimidation of regular, everyday citizens participating in politics," she said.

Democrats have called the recall of Morse — who is term limited in 2014 — a waste of taxpayer dollars. On Wednesday the secretary of state's office is expected to announce its decision on a legal protest filed by Morse backers seeking to nullify the more than 10,100 signatures that organizers had verified.

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